A new study has found that people aged over 70 too enjoy an active life.
According to new research from The University of Manchester and NatCen Social Research, more than half (54 percent) of men and almost a third (31 percent) of women over the age of 70 reported they were still sexually active, with a third of these men and women having frequent sex – meaning at least twice a month.
Tennis star Madison Keys has revealed that she prefers not to be identified by her race.
The 19-year-old, who was asked if she saw the significance in being a young African-American taking on Venus and Serena Williams in consecutive Australian Open matches, replied that it’s something that’s always there obviously, but she is very much right in the middle, E! Online reported.
Keys, whose mother Christine is white and father Rick is black, added that she doesn’t really identify herself as white or African-American as she is just “Madison.”
A new research has found that drinking more than two alcoholic beverages daily in middle-age, raises heart risks more than traditional factors.
The study led by American Heart Association, sorted out the data they collected from hospitals based on stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes and other cardiovascular incidences, and compared them from alcohol and health risks like high blood pressure, diabetes and smoking.
Chelsea star forward Diego Costa is reportedly planning to challenge the violent charge against him over an alleged stamp on Liverpool midfielder Emre Can during their Capital One cup semifinal match at Stamford Bridge.
The Spaniard was charged by the Football Association over an alleged stamp incident during the first half, which infuriated the Liverpool player.
An independent regulatory commission is set to hear the disciplinary case and would make a final decision over whether Costa must serve the suspension, the BBC reported.
Senior Congress leaders on Friday defended the party against allegations levelled by former environment minister Jayanthi Natrajan and questioned the timing of her claims.
“These are baseless allegations , she has no facts. Why did she kept quiet then? Jayanthi Natarjan speaking up now clearly shows that she has been promised some kind of benefit from another party,” said Congress spokesperson Shobha Oza.
Another senior party leader Digvijaya Singh refuted Natrajan’s claims of political interference by Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, saying he would be the last person to do so.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will release its manifesto for the Delhi assembly elections tomorrow; a week before polling begins in the city.
The manifesto is expected to focus on the party’s agenda for ensuring development, women’s safety and water and electricity supply across the city.
Earlier on Thursday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced that it will eschew a manifesto for the Delhi polls and will instead come up with a ‘vision document’.
Snail facial has come out to be the latest beauty craze among the ladies across Thailand, it has been revealed.
Two Frenchmen opened the first such spa in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with just 100 of the garden creatures initially but now they have upgraded it with 30,000 snails on their organic farm, the Daily Express reported.
In this treatment around 30,000 snails are being used that helps to get a youthful glow and heals all the burns, acne, stretch marks, scars and wrinkles.
For a change, chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu played the role of yoga trainer and explained to his colleagues and top bureaucrats the benefits of dhyana and meditation to experience inner joy.
“Every one of us faces several challenges in personal as well as professional life. This training will help us in dealing with these challenges,” Naidu told the participants like a spiritual guru. The ministers and babus kept themselves busy all the day by practising yoga and relaxation Technics.
Former union minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Friday announced her resignation from the primary membership of the Congress, stating that the grand old party was no longer the party that she had joined 30 years ago.
“It is an extremely painful, heart-rending day for me, because my family has been associated with the Congress since its inception. I am a fourth-generation Congress worker and have Congress blood running in my veins. It is an extremely anguished moment that it has come to this position when I have to re-think my association with the Congress Party,” Natarajan told the media.
Singer Jessie J has announced that she will be performing at the forthcoming 2015 Grammy Awards ceremony alongside legendary singer Tom Jones.
The duo has previously performed together when Jessie was a coach on the TV show “The Voice UK” in its first two seasons, reports dailymail.co.uk.
Jessie couldn’t contain her joy at the news as she tweeted a photograph of the announcement with the caption: “I’m performing @thegrammys!!!! Can’t wait@realsirTomJones What an honour.”
Former footballer David Beckham says he has become “a taxi driver” for his four children after retirement.
During his appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, Beckham said he had his hands full driving around sons Brooklyn Joseph, Romeo James, Cruz David and his daughter Harper Seven to school, reports aceshowbiz.com.
“To be honest, I’ve become a taxi driver overnight with the kids. I’m literally an Uber driver now,” he said.
Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Friday said he was mulling over filing a case against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi under the Prevention of Corruption Act, based on Jayanti Natarajan’s letter to party president Sonia Gandhi.
“That letter has become a basis for prosecution under prevention of corruption act. The act states that if someone clears a project with the aim of benefitting others, then a criminal case can be filed in which the punishment is seven years of imprisonment,” Swamy told ANI.
15-year-old girl was kidnapped and allegedly gangraped by four youths for four days in Dhindawli village here, following which two of the accused were arrested, police said.
The minor was kidnapped on Monday when she had gone to relieve herself, SHO VK Sharma said, adding, the girl was kidnapped on gun-point by four youths and taken to a house in Dhindawli village where they raped her repeatedly for four days.
The girl was rescued by the police yesterday in an unconscious state from the house after the victim’s father lodged a missing report.
Five armless sculptures of girls and women, filled with differently coloured fine hair, raise a voice against sex slavery at the ongoing India Art Fair here.
German-born, Italy-based artist Janine Von Thungen, who has created the figures out of soldered wire mesh and filled them with black brown and blond synthetic hair, provides visitors a pair of scissors or tweezers.
A Scotland court has ordered an Indian-origin former bank worker, who stole 120,000 pounds (about $181,000) from a client, to pay back just one pound because she has no assets, media reported.
Satnam Kaur, 31, was working as a customer advisor at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Albyn Place, Aberdeen, when she took the money and transferred the large sums home to India in 2011, BBC reported Thursday.
Kaur was jailed for a year at Aberdeen Sheriff Court last year after being found guilty.
Around Forty six people tested positive for H1N1, pushing the number of swine flu cases to 555 in the month of January. Dr L Narendranath, state government’s official spokesperson for H1N1 confirmed the number of positive cases diagnosed on Thursday.
A 30-year-old man from Madhapur detected of the flu, reportedly died, yet official confirmation is awaited.
Suresh Chanda, principal secretary of Health, Medical & Family Welfare, said that in the year 2009 to 2014, the number of deaths out of positive cases was in the range of 7 to 10 per cent.
As many as 38 incidents targeting the Christian community in India were reported in the last two months of 2014, a Republican lawmaker has claimed, alleging that there is rise in attack against the minorities.
“I rise today to bring attention to the state of religious freedom and pluralism in India. In a very troubling pattern, India’s historic pluralism is being replaced with intolerance, division, and majoritarianism,” Congressman Joe Pitts said in his remarks on the floor of the US House of Representatives this week.
Using computer simulation of a fin whale head, scientists have discovered that the skulls of at least some baleen whales have acoustic properties that capture the energy of low frequencies and direct it to their ear bones.
Baleen whales, also known as mysticetes, are the largest animals on earth, and include blue whales, minke whales, right whales, gray whales and fin whales.
These whales can emit extremely low frequency vocalisations that travel extraordinary distances underwater.
The wavelengths of these calls can be longer than the bodies of the whales themselves.
Taking Gmail and other email apps head on, Microsoft has launched a new Outlook app for iOS and Android devices.
The new app is basically a replacement for San Francisco-based email startup Acompli that was acquired by Microsoft for $200 million in December last year, New York Daily News reported.
Outlook will support Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, iCloud and other key email services.
The app will also help users manage calendar and fetch attachments within the same app.
Sonam Kapoor is proud that her brother Harshvardhan, who is working on his acting debut “Mirziya”, is putting his heart and soul into his career.
“Harsh takes it to another level…he is crazy. I know he is very hardworking, and he does all his stunts himself. He has studied acting and he is actually taking his acting career very seriously,” Sonam said here.
Harshvardhan’s film is being directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra.
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Mystery shrouds the death of a four-year-old Shahista Saba at Malkapur village on Thursday.
According to locals the girl was in the custody of a policeman Syed Zakir Ahmed and his wife Razia Sultana residence of Gandhi Nagar, who posed to be her parents but local people said the couple had been looking after her for the past one month.
On hearing the child cries, the villagers informed the Child Line, an NGO, over the phone that the girl was subjected to torture three days ago.
More than two drinks a day in middle-age may raise your stroke risk more than traditional factors such as high blood pressure and diabetes, warns a study.
Regular heavy drinking of any kind of alcohol can raise blood pressure and cause heart failure or irregular heartbeats over time with repeated drinking, in addition to stroke and other risks.
“For mid-aged adults, avoiding more than two drinks a day could be a way to prevent stroke in later age,” said Pavla Kadlecova, statistician at St Anne’s University Hospital’s International Clinical Research Center in the Czech Republic.
Have diabetes? Get ready to pop a probiotic pill each morning to help control your sugar levels.
According to a promising study, a team from Cornell University engineered a strain of lactobacillus – a human probiotic common in the gut to secrete a Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1).
They then administered it orally to diabetic rats for 90 days and found the rats receiving the engineered probiotic had up to 30 percent lower high blood glucose – a hallmark of diabetes.
Slamming its ally BJP, the Shiv Sena on Friday said that while Maharashtra Chief Minister was busy clinching business deals and attracting investments in the state, it was “heart wrenching” that debt-ridden farmers of Vidarbha were committing suicide.
The BJP-led state government has failed to meet the expectations of the people, it charged.
US researchers have discovered a “mini brain” hidden in our spinal cord that helps us remain balanced while maneuvering our way through crowd or walking across an icy parking lot in winter so that we do not slip and fall.
Such a task happens unconsciously, thanks to a cluster of neurons in our spinal cord that integrate sensory information and make the necessary adjustments to our muscles.